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William Turner Sun Setting Over A Lake

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William Turner Sun Setting Over A Lake (1840)

Joseph Mallord William Turner was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as “the painter of light” and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Some of his works also are cited as examples of Abstract Art existing prior to recognition in the early twentieth century.
While the details of this painting are indistinct, the sunset is lighting up the sky in vibrant reds and oranges.

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Vincent Van Gogh Vase With Oleanders And Books

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Vincent Van Gogh Vase With Oleanders And Books (1888)

“Vase with Oleanders and Books” is a floral still life painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, featuring a bouquet of oleander flowers and books on a table. Vincent described oleanders as joyous, life-affirming flowers that bloomed “inexhaustibly” and were always “putting out strong new shoots.” Vincent Willem van Gogh was a post -Impressionist painter whose work was most notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color.

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John William Waterhouse The Lady Of Shalott

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John William Waterhouse The Lady Of Shalott (1888)

The Lady of Shalott is an 1888 oil-on-canvas painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse. The work is a representation of a scene from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s 1832 poem of the same name, in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman, loosely based on the figure of Elaine of Astolat from medieval Arthurian legend, who yearned with an unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot, isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near King Arthur’s Camelot. Tennyson also reworked the story in Elaine, part of his Arthurian epic Idylls of the King, published in 1859, though in this version the Lady is rowed by a retainer in her final voyage. Waterhouse painted three different versions of this character, in 1888, 1894 and 1915.

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